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aDuQQaut, LLlc Sdlo VI tuc ptOIteSt COW
will increase rather than diminish the
profits.
The most successful shepherd of the
future will have his mutton on the market
as regularly and in as good condition as
the wool.
An Eastern farmer says he does not
know of anything finer than good OK
team, and that wherever you see one you
see good crops.
No stock respond better to good care
and feeding than sheep; and when we'll
fed and cared for, no stock is gentler
and pleasanter to handle.
Attend to the whitewashing of your
fences, trees, outhouses, barns, stables,
&c. Nothing renders q home more at
tractive than liberal use of whitewash
about the premises.
The feeding of sour slop or fermented
grains may cause disease. Yet such food
is fed regularly, though there is always
risk in feeding any kind of food that
is not sound or in the best condition.
The Rural New Yorker says: We have
grown many varieties of the cow pea at
the Rural Farm and several of them not
only make stupendous growth of vine,
but fruit early and in great abundance.
A healthy Buff Cochin chicken will eat
seventeen ounces 298 grains of food per
day. A Brown Leghorn, four ounces,
398 grains. OF nine different breeds the
-Hamburgs give the largest number of
eggs.
Whenever it is noticed that the hogs
eat gravel, it is a sign that something
they need is lacking. A few pieces of
coal, or charcoal, will probably be cure
while the food at the same time should
be varied.
Some swine fanciers claim that the Suf-
folk has all the qualities that constitute
perfect animal for producing the most
pork of the best quality at the least cost,
they say this breed stands unrivaled by
any in the United States.
1t has been demonstrated that calves
pay better when kept until ten or twelve
weeks old than when sold as soon as
born. They will give return for all the
milk they consume, as well as lessen the
supply of milk marketed.
Divide your rhubarb plants at the roots
and make q new location for them. This
should be done very early in the spring
or in the fall. Put them on very
rich ground, with the buds about one or
two inches below the surface.
The milk from sick or Diseased COWS
should always be thrown away. Moth
ing spreads contagion sooner than I'M
pure or filthy milk; yet, as a rule, all
the milk is poured into cans together
without regard to the condition of the
cow.
The best turkeys<for' breeding purposes
are those two years old. If yearling
stock be used the earliest Matched males
and females should bs selected. It will
be of no advantage to have them begin
to hatch until the weather shall become
warmer.
Charred wood from the stove, or char
coal in any shape, is excellent for hogs.
1t is best to keep charcoal in the pens
where the hogs can already have free &C.
cess to it. Rotten wood is also relished
by hogs, and they are very fond of burnt
bread or other charred substances.
In using seed potatoes select such as
are fresh and plump. The supposition
that It's best to use sprouted potatoes is
an error, as the sprouting of the seed
potato before it is planted causes lack
of nutrition to the plants after the seed
is planted. Every, sprout draws nourish-
ment from the seed.
Potatoes respond to attention every
where. They must, however, be well
fertilized to bring a good crop. Old sta
BILE manure can be plowed in. Some of
the best crops are raised with CONNER
cial fertilizers. As fertilizers the average
soapsuds from the laundry are worth more
than the soap from which they are pro-
duced.
A virginian who has had some diff
Guilty in keeping cabbages over winter
says that by the following method OF
packing he has been successful. We take
the heads only, and placing barrels in the
corner of an unused stable, put in good
quantity of dry leayes, then bury a head
and stuff leaves around it; another head
or two, if small, more leaves and son on.
Three barrels hold all we need. We pile
and pack thoroughly in and around these
barrels all the leaves we have patience to
carry, and lay boards over them.
Major Alvord thinks that each man
should breed his own cows. Half is in
the blood of the decent, and half in care
and feed. We can not mix the blood and
and get satisfactory result. The gen.
eral purpose COW is myth. Milk is
used for sale as food, for cheese and for
butter It is in the total solids in milk
that its food value consists: The quality
of the cheese varies in different breeds.
Generally milk that is good for butter is
good for cheese. For butter it is the
best enconomy to get the largest amount
from the least amount of milk. A pound
from seven or eight quarts is better than
from eleven to thirteen quarts.
The Drought Of 1918.
From the unpublished letters of Jeffer-